dissension

• discention, dissention (obsolete)

Inherited from Middle English dissencioun, from Middle French dissention, discention, from Old French dissension, from Latin dissensio.

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛnʃən/
• Hyphenation: dis‧sen‧sion

dissension (countable and uncountable, plural dissensions)

1. An act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.
2. Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, “The Best Governance”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 1st book, page 11:

     […] wherby at the last shuld have sourded discention amonge the people, they beinge seperately enclined towarde theyr naturall souerayne lorde […]

   • 1843, E. A. Poe, Morning on the Wissahiccon:

     The natural scenery of America has often been contrasted, in its general features as well as in detail, with the landscape of the Old World—more especially of Europe—and not deeper has been the enthusiasm, than wide the dissension, of the supporters of each region.

   • 1998, Deborah J. Bennett, Randomness, Harvard University Press, page 34f:

     In Biblical times the resort to chance was an agreed-upon way of making many decisions because it ended dissension among opposing, often powerful, parties.

Borrowed from Latin dissēnsiōnem.

dissension f (plural dissensions)

1. dissension

• “dissension”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• dessinions